Nationalism of one kind or another was the cause of most of the genocide of the twentieth century. — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Flags are bits of colored cloth used first to shrinkwrap people's brains and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead. — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“There is a notion gaining credence that the free market breaks down national barriers, and that corporate globalization's ultimate destination is a… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Nationalism of one kind or another was the cause of most of the genocide of the twentieth century. Flags are bits of… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Just a few years ago India, Pakistan and Bangladesh were one country. Actually, we were many countries if you count the princely… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
What's a country? It's just an administrative unit, a glorified municipality. Why do we imbue it with esoteric meaning and protect it… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
What sort of love is this love that we have for countries? What sort of country is it that will ever live… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Anyway, what is a country? When people say, "Tell me about India," I say, "Which India?.... The land of poetry and mad… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
...As the disparity between the rich and the poor grows, the fight to corner resources is intensifying. To push through their "sweetheart deals," to… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
In 2001, we were told that the war in Afghanistan was a feminist mission. The marines were liberating Afghan women from the Taliban. Can… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Flat muscled and honey coloured. Sea secrets in his eyes. A silver raindrop in his ear. — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Fiction and non-fiction are only different techniques of story telling. For reasons I do not fully understand, fiction dances out of me. Non-fiction is… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
NGOs have a complicated space in neoliberal politics. They are supposed to mop up the anger. Even when they are doing good work, they… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
I've never been that person who thought that because I've written one novel, I should write another and another. It's only when there was… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
It is such a supreme folly to believe that nuclear weapons are deadly only if they're used. — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
I think one of the saddest things that's happening to literature is that it's getting over-simplified by this diet of simple political ideas. — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
The only dream worth having, I told her, is to dream that you will live while you're alive and die only when you're dead. — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
But what was there to say? Only that there were tears. Only that Quietness and Emptiness fitted together like stacked spoons. Only that there… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Truly, there's no alternative to stupidity. Cretinism is the mother of fascism. I have no defence against it, really.... — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
